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Life on Mars

Definition

Life on Mars

We have wondered for centuries whether our neighbouring planet is home to life, just like our own. The search is ongoing, but there are promising signs.

Mars rover

Space

Unique chance to confirm methane spikes – and perhaps life – on Mars

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the NASA-MOLA false-colour topographic model of the Mars surface Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the hemispheric dichotomy and southern highlands (orange), a likely source for the Martian polymict breccia meteorites

Physics

Mars meteorite assault stopped 500 million years earlier than thought

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Phobos

Space

Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon

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astronauts

Space

Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

Features

Surviving Mars

Technology

Surviving Mars lets you enjoy the highs and lows of building a colony

Culture

Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet

Space

Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet

Regulars

NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes

Space

NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes

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Martian surface

Life

If Mars has life, its total mass is 10,000 times smaller than Earth’s

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The high resolution stereo camera on board ESA’s Mars Express captured this impressive upwelling front of dust clouds – visible in the right half of the frame – near the north polar ice cap of Mars in April this year. It was one of several local small-scale dust storms that have been observed in recent months at the Red Planet, which is currently enduring a particularly intense dust storm season. A much larger storm emerged further southwest at the end of May and developed into a global, planet-encircling dust storm within several weeks. The intensity of this major event means very little light from the Sun reaches the martian surface, a situation extreme enough that NASA’s 15-year old Opportunity rover has been unable to recharge its batteries and call home: it has been in hibernation mode since mid-June.

Space

Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry

The same dust storm on Mars that killed the Opportunity rover is helping us understand how the planet became so inhospitable

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Space

Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars

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Space

Water on Mars is probably too cold and salty for life as we know it

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Space

Mars used to have massive flowing rivers twice as wide as Earth’s

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Space

NASA’s InSight lander is using magnetism to search for water on Mars

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